Podcast 257 : Making a Gallery Wrap
Here’s a video for this week’s Podcast in which I show you how to make a gallery wrap with the Hahnemühle Pro Gallerie Wrap System. NOTE: You can now view the embedded video on your iPad, thanks to a recent Vimeo update! Don’t forget to hit the full-screen button in the video window to view [...]
Podcast 256 : Ideas from the New Office/Studio
My new office, come modest studio, is now just about complete, so today I’m going to give you a bit of a guided tour. Of course, it’s not perfect, and if I had even more space, I’d certainly do things differently, but I’m happy with my current space. So I thought I’d share it with [...]
Podcast 253 : Q&A #12 – What Tripod? What Walk Around Lens?
In this post/podcast episode, I’m going to answer three questions from listener Paul Posey, from Louisville, Kentucky, (which coincidentally is the home of our friends over at Outdoor Photo Gear). Thanks very much for your questions Paul, and it looks like you sent the questions via the MBP Podcast Companion iPhone app, so thanks very [...]
Podcast 251 : Planning the New Office/Studio
With the preparation for my move next week taking up so much of my time, I haven’t been able to get any photography in at all in the last month. I generally like to talk about things photography related that I’m involved with right now, and as I’m currently planning for my move, including creating [...]
Podcast 249 : Display and Monitor Calibration with the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo
Today I take you through a full monitor and printer calibration with the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo, and we also take a look at how to optimize a printer profile. Although it was a little late, I finally published an iPod optimized version of the video via the iTunes/RRS stream, so recheck iTunes if that’s where [...]
Podcast 246 : The iPad for the Photographer
I picked up my iPad on May 28, which was the day that the iPad went on sale in most countries outside of the US. Today I’ll talk about how I’m using my iPad now, and throw in a few useful app suggestions, as well as covering what I’m not doing, with reasons why, and [...]
WebSpy and MBP Photography Assignment Prizes!
WebSpy, sponsors of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, have for a third time kindly set aside funds for us to offer some amazing prizes for the participant with the most accumulated votes after the next six month’s worth of monthly assignments, from June to November 2010. I am also going to throw in a fourth [...]
Podcast 245: Kata Bag 3N1-33 Sling Backpack Review
Kata-Bags sent me a 3N1-33 Sling Backpack to try a few weeks ago, and after using it a number of times now, I’m very pleased with it, and have been looking forward to sharing some details with you today. (By the way, if you’d prefer to listen, there’s an audio player at the bottom of [...]
Win a Kata 3N1-33 Sling Backpack Camera Bag!
I recently had the pleasure of testing out a new Kata 3N1-33 Sling Backpack Camera Bag from Kata Bags (http://www.kata-bags.com/), and I’ve fallen in love with this bag. The great folks at Kata Bags have kindly donated a second 3N1-33 Sling Backpack Camera Bag to give away to one lucky Twitter user, in return for [...]
Martin Joined the X-Rite Coloratti!
I’m proud to announce that I recently joined the Coloratti, who, in X-Rite’s words… Include the world’s top professional photographers, a group whose vision, passion, leadership, and partnership are recognized and valued by X-Rite. Coloratti photographers are highly respected by their peers and are admired by up-and-coming professionals, enthusiasts, and students alike. The Coloratti understand [...]
Canon EOS 1D Mark IV Custom Function Settings
I’m sometimes asked what custom function settings I select on my Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera, so I figured I’d share this information so that you can compare my settings with your own. I have also made my custom settings file available below for you to apply to your own camera if you want [...]
Podcast 236 : The EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM Lens with Extenders
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Last week, I released a review of the new Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM lens, and was asked how the version II of Canon’s workhorse lens fairs with Canon’s Extenders (teleconverters)? I’m pleased the reader/listener asked quickly, as I sold [...]
Podcast 235 : Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM Lens Review
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. On March 19th, 2010, Canon released the updated version of their famed workhorse, the EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM lens. I have spent the last three days taking mine through its paces, and today I’m going to share my findings. I’ve [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Update 2.0.4
After a false start with problems in firmware 2.0.3 that caused the camera to fail to record any audio at all, today, Canon followed up with firmware 2.0.4 that adds manual audio controls to the 5D Mark II. Here’s my 5D2 with the controls displayed. I still don’t see a link to this firmware on [...]
Podcast 234 : Camera and Photo Imaging Show 2010
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. This year marked the start of a new event, the Camera and Photo Imaging Show, at the Pacifico Yokohama exhibition hall. I can see from the updated Web site, which is at cpplus.jp, that they had around 41,000 visitors over the four [...]
Podcast 230 : Canon EOS 1D Mark IV Review
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Just back from my Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshops, today I’m going to give you some initial impressions of the new Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera, which I picked up a few days before leaving for the Snow [...]
Podcast 227 : X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Review (Video)
Today I’m going to take you through some of the basic operations of the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. With the preparation for my Snow Monkeys and Hokkaido Workshops, I really didn’t have time to prepare for a Podcast this week, but I had planned on talking about my new X-Rite ColorChecker Passport, which I have fallen [...]
Podcast 225 : Roundtable #4 with Landon Michaelson and Dan Newcomb
The MBP Roundtable is back, after a two year break! Today I chat with Landon Michaelson and Dan Newcomb on some great photography related topics! Landon Michaelson is a passionate photographer who enjoys photography, in some way, every day. In Landon’s day job as Lead Designer he gets to do a lot of photo making [...]
Podcast 221 : Assignment Winners and Next Assignment Prizes!
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Today it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the first MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment accumulated vote winners for the last six month’s assignments. As you know, when our sponsors WebSpy came on board in July 2009, they kindly set by [...]
2nd MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Prizes!
WebSpy, sponsors of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, have once again kindly set aside funds for us to offer prizes for the next six month’s accumulated votes from each of our monthly assignments. The first assignment, for December 2009 is already in progress, so if you haven’t already started shooting for this, the theme is [...]
An Exercise in Magnification with Extension Tubes
Extension tubes are really handy. Because they have no glass elements, they aren’t very heavy, and you can couple two or three together and put them into one pouch, and they are no bigger than a small lens, so they fit in the photographer’s vest without taking up much room. When you put an extension [...]
Podcast 213 : Martin Interview by Jack Andrys, WebSpy CEO – Part 2
Many people have asked me to give more details about myself over the four years that I’ve been doing the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, but I didn’t get around to it until last week. When I spoke with Jack Andrys, the CEO of WebSpy, our sponsor, about having Jack on the show, he had the [...]
Podcast 211 : Canon EF 100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM Lens Review
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. I’m not sure if Canon is using this marketing worldwide, but in Japan, they are calling the 7D the Image Monster! On the same day as the 7D release, Canon also released their new EF 100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM and [...]
Podcast 210 : Indoor Portrait Shoot Walk Through
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Lem Fugitt and I first met virtually a while back, when Lem asked some advice when he was getting ready to buy a new camera. Then Lem commissioned me to shoot his portrait for his professional profile image, which I was happy [...]
